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Global · Aug 17, 2026 · 5 min read
Japan's economy grew 0.3 percent in the second quarter, an annualised 1.1 percent, according to the first preliminary estimate published by the…
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Energy & Commodities · Aug 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Minamitorishima is about 1.51 square kilometres of flat Pacific land, roughly the size of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace grounds, some 1,950 kilometres southeast…
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Global · Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan producer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, with petroleum and coal products subtracting 0.20 percentage points and utilities adding 0.23.
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Japan · Aug 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan recorded a current account deficit of ninety two point three billion yen in June, its first monthly deficit in seventeen months,…
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Japan · Aug 7, 2026 · 6 min read
Japan's Ministry of Finance has confirmed on the record that it bought yen in coordination with the United States Treasury on Friday…
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Japan · Aug 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan's Ministry of Finance sold 30-year government bonds on 6 August 2026 into firm demand, published international reserves for the end of…
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Japan · Aug 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan's monetary base continued to contract in July and the minutes of its June policy meeting, released on 5 August 2026, confirmed…
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Japan · Aug 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Japan and the United States intervened jointly in the foreign exchange market to support the yen, the first yen-buying intervention by the…
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Global · Jul 31, 2026 · 6 min read
The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 1.0 percent by an eight to one vote and revised its inflation outlook,…
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Global · Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Consumer price inflation in Japan rose to 1.7 percent in June 2026 from a year earlier, up from 1.5 percent in May,…
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Global · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
The Japanese yen has fallen to its weakest level since 1986, with the dollar reaching around 163 yen, prompting the government in…
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Global · Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's corporate goods price index rose 7.1 percent in June from a year earlier, the fastest annual pace since March 2023, accelerating…
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Japan’s economy grew 0.3 percent in the second quarter, an annualised 1.1 percent, according to the first preliminary estimate published by the Cabinet Office on 17 August. That undershot the 2.0 percent annualised rate expected in a Reuters poll of economists and followed 0.5 percent growth in the first quarter. Two rows further down the…
Minamitorishima is about 1.51 square kilometres of flat Pacific land, roughly the size of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace grounds, some 1,950 kilometres southeast of the capital. What gives it weight is the exclusive economic zone it generates — approximately 430,000 square kilometres, larger than Japan’s entire landmass — and what lies beneath the seabed within it….
Japan producer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, with petroleum and coal products subtracting 0.20 percentage points and utilities adding 0.23.
Japan recorded a current account deficit of ninety two point three billion yen in June, its first monthly deficit in seventeen months, the Ministry of Finance said on 10 August. Economists surveyed by Reuters had expected a surplus of one point five one trillion yen. That headline figure is unadjusted, and the adjusted series tells…
Japan’s Ministry of Finance has confirmed on the record that it bought yen in coordination with the United States Treasury on Friday 31 July 2026, United States Eastern time. What neither government has confirmed is the currency the American side sold to do it, and a well-sourced press account that it sold euros has now…
Japan’s Ministry of Finance sold 30-year government bonds on 6 August 2026 into firm demand, published international reserves for the end of July on 7 August, and the Statistics Bureau released June household spending the same morning. Taken together the three describe an economy with a stable external position and a household sector still losing…
Japan’s monetary base continued to contract in July and the minutes of its June policy meeting, released on 5 August 2026, confirmed that the Bank raised its policy rate at that meeting by a vote of seven to one. The monetary base averaged 5,549,259 hundred million yen in July, down 13.8 percent from a year…
Japan and the United States intervened jointly in the foreign exchange market to support the yen, the first yen-buying intervention by the two authorities in 28 years, according to a statement issued by Japan’s Ministry of Finance. In a statement issued on 3 August by the Minister of Finance, KATAYAMA Satsuki, the ministry said it…
The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 1.0 percent by an eight to one vote and revised its inflation outlook, signalling a gradual approach to further tightening.
Consumer price inflation in Japan rose to 1.7 percent in June 2026 from a year earlier, up from 1.5 percent in May, according to data reported on 24 July 2026. Core inflation, which excludes fresh food and is the Bank of Japan’s main gauge, rose to 1.6 percent from 1.4 percent in May, in line…